Ignacio Piñeiro, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ignacio Piñeiro

Cuban musician

Date of Birth: 21-May-1888

Place of Birth: Havana, Havana Province, Cuba

Date of Death: 12-Mar-1969

Profession: composer, conductor, songwriter

Nationality: Cuba

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Ignacio Piñeiro

  • Ignacio Piñeiro Martínez (May 21, 1888 – March 12, 1969) was a Cuban musician, bandleader and composer whose career started in rumba and flowered in the rise of the son.
  • He was one of the most important composers of son music; in total he wrote about 327 numbers, mostly sones.Piñeiro was a brilliant rumbero who worked with musical groups from 1903 onwards.
  • In 1906, was a member of the Timbre de Oro coro de clave y guaguancó (a vocal group precursor of contemporary guaguancó), and later directed Los Roncos, another famous coro de guaguancó.
  • He was taught the double bass by María Teresa Vera, and in 1926 he was a member of her band, Sexteto Occidente, which recorded in New York City.
  • In 1927 he founded the Sexteto Nacional de Ignacio Piñeiro, later simply known as Sexteto Nacional, in which he was the director and songwriter.
  • With the addition of a trumpet the band became the Septeto Nacional. For financial reasons, Piñeiro quit the group in 1935; it was then led by trumpet player Lázaro Herrera until the group disbanded in 1937.
  • Piñeiro became for some years the leader and principal songwriter of Los Roncos.
  • The Septeto Nacional was recreated several times from 1954 onwards, initially under Piñeiro's direction, and it continues to perform.Piñeiro's composition "Échale salsita" (written on a train to Chicago in 1930, and the first song use of the world "salsa" in son) influenced George Gershwin's Cuban Overture.
  • The two met when Gershwin visited Cuba in February 1932.
  • Many of Piñeiro's songs have been performed by other artists like Ray Barretto ("Don Lengua") and René Álvarez ("A la lae la la").
  • In 1999, Piñeiro was posthumously inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame.

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